SeaTac-area man Nicholas Francisco’s car was found Monday morning in Federal Way, but he has not.

Meanwhile, the reward for finding him has raised to $15,000, and this video was just released:

A missing SeaTac-area man’s car has been found in Federal Way, according to KING-TV.

Nicholas Francisco, 28, was last seen around 6 p.m. on February 13 as he was leaving work in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood.

His red 1992 Toyota Paseo hatchback was found at the Heritage Condos at 123 S. 340th Street in the Panther Lake area of Federal Way at 10:20 a.m. Monday.

Family members plan to start searching that area and hand out flyers.

Federal Way Police say, as far as they know, Francisco has no connection to the Heritage Condos.

Francisco is about six feet tall. He was last seen wearing a light-blue or off-white button-down short, a black jacket and blue jeans.

There’s a $5,000 reward in the case.

“We just need him to come home,” said Christine Francisco, wife of Nicholas Francisco, who disappeared after leaving his Queen Anne office.

“I am begging everybody, begging everybody to please, please help me find my husband because I cannot live my life without him,” she said.

Deputies also have been pinging his cell phone, but have gotten no response. Nicholas’ co-workers say his cell phone batteries were dead on his last day at work.

Just before he vanished, Nicholas called his wife and promised his 4-year-old daughter, Zea, he’d make Valentine’s Day cookies with her, but never showed.

The Franciscos also have a son, Noah, age 2 1/2, and Christine is pregnant with their third child, due in early October.

“If you can’t find him, these kids won’t have a daddy then,” Christine said in an interview, breaking into tears. “This unborn baby won’t have a daddy.”

In their last phone conversation, from Nicholas’ work phone, he told his wife that he was “signing off on something,” then planned to head home after running an errand at Costco for her.

“He told me he loved me,” she said.

Francisco’s co-workers on Friday combed the streets around Francisco’s work and retraced his route home, hoping to find some sign of the missing man.

“Literally there is no place to search,” said King County sheriff’s spokesman John Urquhart. “What we have to do is our investigative work and try to track him either through cell phone or bank records.”

“It’s not normal for him to make stops, have hangouts or go visit anyone else,” said one co-worker. “He’s a man who comes home after work.”

Christine Francisco said there has been no activity in Nicholas’ e-mail or bank account since he vanished.

Francisco stands about 6 feet tall and was last seen wearing a light blue and white button-down shirt, a plain black jacket and a pair of blue jeans.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is urged call 911 immediately.

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SOURCES:

• KING-TV
• KOMO Radio

SeaTac – Unsanitary sheets and mattresses forced state officials to shut down a SeaTac motel early Wednesday morning, investigators said.

The New West Motel, located at 21450 International Boulevard, violated construction, maintenance, electrical, fire and safety codes and is operating under unsanitary conditions, according to the Washington State Department of Health.

Conditions in the motel rooms include dangerous wiring installations and broken and boarded-up windows that would prevent guests from escaping a fire.

Other conditions include mold and unsanitary mattresses, bed covers, sheets and mattress pads.

The state was forced to suspend the license of the motel after learning of these violations.

The motel must be vacated by Feb. 15 and may not offer accommodations until a hearing is held.

It has 20 days to request a hearing and contest these charges.

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SOURCE:

• KIRO-TV

SEATAC – A SeaTac company is voluntarily recalling its coconut-flavor frozen desert after state inspectors found one contaminated with a bacterium that can be especially dangerous to pregnant women.

No illnesses have been reported from the nondairy dessert, sold by Ca Rem #1. The dessert, similar to a Popsicle, is sold at 40 food markets and restaurants in Western Washington and western Oregon.

“We know that these desserts can stay in freezers for months, so families should take a second look at what they’ve been saving for a special treat,” said Claudia Coles, manager of the state Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Program.

Coles is encouraging people to throw away Ca Rem #1 coconut desserts they bought.

A Department of Agriculture inspector randomly selected the contaminated dessert Jan. 14 at Asian Planet Food Market in Kent as part of routine food testing, spokesman Jason Kelly said.

Test results returned eight days later showed it was contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, a harmful bacterium.

The Department of Agriculture determined the product’s distribution area and initiated the recall Friday.

The dessert was made in Hillman City, where the retail and wholesale ice cream business was located until being licensed in SeaTac earlier this month, according to the Department of Agriculture.

Ca Rem #1 is owned by Jackie Bell, a Vietnam native who makes nondairy frozen desserts with coconut milk and fruit. She also owned Le Bambou, a now-defunct Vietnamese cafe in Hillman City.

“We don’t know what caused that,” she said of the contaminated product.

Food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes may not look or smell spoiled. Eating food with the bacterium may cause listeriosis, a food-borne illness that can cause high fever and severe headache, among other symptoms. The elderly and people with weakened immune systems are also particularly at risk.

Consumers with questions are encouraged to call Ca Rem #1 at 206-720-1887.

SOURCE:

• Seattle P-I

SEATAC – For the first time ever, the Port of Seattle has taken stock of the greenhouse gas that is pumped into the atmosphere by activities associated with Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, from parking-lot and hotel shuttles to the vehicles on the tarmac — and, of course, the jets themselves.

The news is sobering.

“Airports are big polluters,” said John Creighton, president of the Port commission. “But we want to be part of the solution not the problem, and the first step is getting solid data, to reduce aviation-related emissions.”

Airport activities generated about 5 million metric tons of carbon-dioxide emissions in 2006 — and 84 percent of that came from airplane emissions, according to the report. Emissions associated with airline travel were equivalent to each of Sea-Tac’s 31 million passengers that year driving for 300 miles in cars that get 23 miles per gallon, according to Russ Simonson, a senior environmental program manager at Sea-Tac.

Transportation to and from the airport was a distant second, at 11 percent of the problem. All the other activities on the ground came to 5 percent or less.

Sea-Tac is the nation’s 17th busiest airport, and last year was its busiest ever.

The Port already has identified steps it wants to take to reduce the emissions, including consolidating shuttle-bus trips and converting some ground-crew vehicles to natural gas. Other airports in the country, including Los Angeles, Dallas and Phoenix, already have taken similar steps.

Airport officials also say they want to build the infrastructure needed to provide electrical power and air to airplanes while they are parked at the gate, so pilots can switch off the jet engines. Some other airports already have taken those steps, too.

But the airport may also use the emissions inventory to break new ground.

Creighton said he sees a special role for Seattle, the home of Boeing and Alaska Airlines, to lead the way nationally. “We need a Northwest clean-air strategy for the airport,” Creighton said.

He said he may push the Port to support federal emissions reductions for aircraft and work with airlines to set voluntary targets to reduce aircraft emissions at the Port of Seattle.

It’s worked before on other environmental issues. In the 1980s, the Port negotiated with the airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration to phase out noisier planes.

While the FAA would prefer a national approach, there’s nothing standing in the way of Sea-Tac again negotiating voluntary agreements, this time on air pollution, said Carl Burleson, director of the office of environment and energy for the FAA.

The FAA is helping airports reduce emissions through operational changes, including implementing more efficient routes, new navigational equipment and switching to electrical power for gate operations, Burleson said.

Any local emission-reduction targets would have to be significant but realistic, Creighton said, taking into consideration current technology, public-safety issues and airlines’ need to remain competitive.

“We don’t want to impose standards that aren’t reachable,” Creighton said. “But I think the Port of Seattle has a role to play and needs to step up and lead.”

SOURCE:

• The Seattle Times